Summary

Offering a balance of social, political, environmental, and cultural history,Latin America and Its Peoplelooks at the whole of Latin America in a thematic rather than country-by-country approach. This engaging textbook emphasizes the stories of the diverse people of Latin America, their everyday lives, and the issues that affected them. Written by two of the leading scholars in the field, Cheryl Martin and Mark Wasserman,Latin America and Its Peoplepresents a fresh interpretative survey of Latin American history from pre-Columbian times to the beginning of the Twenty-First Century. It examines the many institutions that Latin Americans have built and rebuilt - families, governments, churches, political parties, labor unions, schools, and armies - and it does so through the lives of the people who forged these institutions and later altered them to meet the changing circumstances. Emphasizes the story of the diverse people of Latin America, their everyday lives, and the issues and forces that affect them. Latin American History Latin American History

Table of Contents

List of Features

List of Maps and Color Plates

Preface About the Authors

The First Peoples Of The Americas

The First Americans Coming to America

Subsistence Strategies and the Development of Agriculture

Sedentary Communities and Ceremonial Centers

Ceremonial Centers in Mexico and Peru

The Olmec: ldquo;Mother Culturerdquo; of Mexico?

Chaviacute;n de Huantar in Peru

The Cities of Classic Mesoamerica

Monte Albaacute;n Teotihuacan Maya

Civilization in the Classic Era Peru

After Chaviacute;n The Moche

The Nazca Tiwanaku

The Wari Empire Mesoamerica and Peru, 900-1400 C.E.

The Toltecs

The Mixtecs of Oaxaca

The Post-Classic Maya Peru after Tiwanaku and Wari

The World of Early Americans

People and Their Environment Early

Americans and Their Beliefs Communities, States, and War

How Historians Understand Archaeology

Literacy, And The Study Of History

Latin American Lives Pacal The GreaT

King Of Palenque, 603-683 C.E.

Slice of Life The Craft Workers Of Chan Chan, 1400 C.E.

Conclusion Learning More About Latin Americans

Americans And Iberians On The Eve Of Contact

Mesoamerica in the Fifteenth Century

The Rise of the Mexica Mexica Statecraft

Mexica Religion Everyday Life in the Time of the Mexica

Mesoamerica on the Eve of the Spanish Invasion

The Andes in the Fifteenth Century

The Rise of the Incas Inca Statecraft

Andean Religion in the Time of the Incas

Everyday Life in the Time of the Incas

The Aztecs and Incas Compared

The Diversity of American Peoples

The Tainos and Caribs

The Tupi of Coastal Brazil

The ldquo;Pueblordquo; Peoples of New Mexico

The Spanish and the Portuguese Centuries of Conquest Medieval

Iberia and the Reconquista

Iberian Monarchies in the Fifteenth Century

The Breakdown of Iberian ldquo;Convivenciardquo;

Iberian Society in the Fifteenth Century

Iberia and the Beginnings of Overseas Expansion

How Historians Understand

Counting People In Past Societies

Latin American Lives TANTA CARHUA

Bride Of The Sun

Slice of Life

The Marketplace At Tlatelolco

Conclusion Learning More About Latin Americans

The European Conquest Of America

The Europeans Arrive Columbus and the First Encounters

The Caribbean Colonies

The Portuguese in Brazil

The Spanish in Mesoamerica and the Andes Corteacute;s and the Aztecs

The Search for ldquo;Otro Meacute;xicordquo;

The Pizarros and the Incas Military Conquest or Strategic Alliance?

Building a Colonial Society

The Ecological Conquest Conquistadors, Encomenderos, and Native Peoples A Multiracial Society in Formation

The ldquo;Spiritual Conquestrdquo; of Latin America Early Evangelization